The members of the Derham family, owners of Atlas Sahara, the leading hydrocarbon distribution company in southern Morocco, have donated a plot of land, which will be used for the construction of the new US Consulate in Dakhla.
The process of opening a US consulate in Dakhla, in the south of Morocco , has just been initiated. This is announced by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who reports the immediate inauguration of a virtual presence post.
After the United Arab Emirates, it is Bahrain’s turn to open a general consulate in Laâyoune . Its inauguration will take place this Monday, December 14, 2020.
The new US Consulate in Casablanca will be ready by 2024. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on Thursday in the presence of the US ambassador to Rabat and the Wali of the Casablanca-Settat region.
The Consulate of Morocco in Bilbao was stormed, at the beginning of the week, by about twenty Moroccans residing in the Basque region. The latter protested against the administrative slowness.
Despite a Schengen visa and documents justifying the purpose and conditions of travel, Moroccan travelers have been denied entry into Spanish territory. The incident took place earlier this week at Barcelona-El Prat International Airport.
Mohamed Amahjour, a member of the Party of Justice and Development, was denied access to Spanish territory. The deputy mayor of Tangier and his 17-year-old son were blocked on September 2 at Barajas airport in Madrid.
An Eritrean national was arrested on Wednesday at the entrance of the Spanish Consulate in Tetouan , in possession of a highly sophisticated camera.
A suspicious envelope containing a white powder was received on Thursday at the Moroccan Consulate in Antwerp. Eight people remained confined inside the building.
The Dutch health authorities proceeded, on Monday evening, to the closure of the offices of the Moroccan Consulate in Rotterdam, following the appearance of new cases of Coronavirus contamination.
The death of a Moroccan national killed by police in Bremen has provoked very strong reactions within the Moroccan community in Germany. To ease tensions, the German embassy in Rabat was forced to react.
The British Ambassador to Rabat, Thomas Reilly, announced in a tweet that Morocco will proceed to open its borders from July 10 at the earliest.